Month: March 2020

8:45 AM ET The Kansas City Chiefs were unable to reach a long-term deal with Chris Jones before Monday’s deadline to use the franchise tag, so they placed the tag on their star defensive lineman, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Tag numbers have not been released yet, but last season defensive ends got $17.128
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8:30 AM BST James Harrington ESPN’s Six Nations Fantasy Rugby competition screeched to a not-unexpected halt on Friday when Wales vs Scotland was finally called off. The encounter in Cardiff had been the one game left standing, long after the other two scheduled matches of the final weekend, in Paris and Italy, had been postponed.
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11:22 PM ET A member of the Vancouver Canucks full-time office staff has tested positive for the coronavirus, the team announced Sunday night. 2 Related The individual does not have a fan-facing role, Canucks chief operating officer Trent Carroll said in a statement, and is not in contact with the players, hockey operations personnel or
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10:03 PM ET Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, NBA owners and executives are bracing for the possibility of mid-to-late June as a best-case scenario for the league’s return, sources told ESPN on Sunday. Fears exist of a season completely lost, especially based on what some experts see as the slow response of the
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1:00 PM ET ESPN staff Last Thursday, the NCAA announced it was canceling all championships, including the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, because of the coronavirus outbreak. Since then, there have been questions and speculation around what led to the decision. ESPN contacted commissioners, coaches, players and officials to get their takes on an unprecedented
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4:03 PM ET ESPN News Services Brooks Koepka said Sunday that he has no interest in the Premier Golf League, another setback to a league promising guaranteed money and a team concept that now won’t have the top two players in the world. “I am out of the PGL. I’m going with the PGA Tour,”
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1:51 PM ET Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, the first NBA player who tested positive for COVID-19, recorded a video released by the NBA urging people to take the appropriate precautions to limit the coronavirus from spreading during the pandemic. “It’s all about protecting yourself and the people around you,” Gobert said in the video,
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2:31 PM ET Although next weekend’s UFC event is still up in the air, the original main event — Tyron Woodley vs. Leon Edwards — definitely will not happen. After the UFC was forced to cancel the March 21 card in London and move it to a yet-to-be determined location in the United States, Edwards
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12:23 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” A New York Yankees minor league player has tested positive for coronavirus, becoming the first known baseball player affected by the outbreak, the team confirmed. The player, who did not spend any
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